Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their new topic in Art, focusing on photo opportunities. Yesterday, using the iPad, children took pictures of fruit in the style of Edward Weston. The children used the photo editing app to edit their images. Have a look at our work.
As part of our new art unit, Year 6 have been looking at the work of Edward Weston and how he uses colours and close up images to create abstract art. He creates pieces using a technique called Macro Photography: a techniques which involves taking pictures up close to Read more
Year 6 created their own piece of photomontage after taking inspiration from Hannah Hoch and Chris Plowman. Have a look at our pieces of art work.
To celebrate the King’s coronation this weekend, Year 2 designed and made our own commemorative plates. We followed a tutorial on how to draw King Charles, then added our own designs.
Year 4 have been taking part in the ‘Linking project.’ At the start of Year 4 we met children from Ashfield Valley Primary School at the M6 theatre. Since then we have been receiving and writing letters to our linking buddies. Last Monday was very exciting as our linking friends Read more
This week we have been learning about The Gingerbread Man story. We have been designing our own gingerbread, making one in the play dough area and acting out the story. Everyone really enjoyed acting out the story and being different characters! This afternoon, we have been very busy designing our Read more
We have started our new art topic this week- Map it out. For our first lesson we have been investigating maps as a stimulus for drawing. We looked at a range of different maps and discussed which ones look old or new, real or imaginary, useful or art. We talked Read more
This week was our final week of our abstract sculpture topic. We worked in groups, we tried to create the most abstract structure that we could. Here are some pictures of our learning
In our art lessons we have been learning about different shape and sculpture. We have learnt how different sculptors fit shapes together and how they make sculptures. Here are some pictures of our learning.
This half term we are looking at 3D Art and sculpture as part of our Art topic. In this lesson we used cardboard to construct a sculpture and thought carefully about what 2D and 3D shapes would fit together no how to ensure they could stand up. We used out Read more